Craig Fraedrich - Educational Materials and Big Band Charts

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Scale Studies for Improvisation   

All instruments, Beginner to advanced. 65 pages, PDF,  treble and bass clef books. Designed for developing and maintaining fluency with scales. Click buttons to download.

"Dues Etudes"

Updated - 2004.  Trumpet/Bb instrument, intermediate to advanced. 41 pages, PDF.  Twenty  (four for each CD cut) "harmonically progressive" etudes playable with the first five selections of the "Payin' Dues" Aebersold play-along.  Section 1 etudes contain no chromatic tones or substitutions. The  emphasis is on melodic development and diatonic voice leading.  Section 2 maintains the "first choice scale" harmonic vocabulary  but adds chromatic approach tones and rotations. Section 3 adds altered scales (super locrian, half-whole diminished, locrian #2, etc.) and tritone subs using pentatonics. Section 4 puts it all together. Other transpositions available.  (Eb, Concert, Bass Clef) Purchase the Payin' Dues Aebersold at:

"Dues Etudes"  PDF downloads

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Low Bass Clef: (Bass Bone, Tuba)

II-V-I Long Tone Exercises

All instruments, 12 pages, PDF. Long tone voice-leading exercises for I-V-I progressions. Practice with Vol. 3 of the Jamie Aebersold play-along series.  Work on voice leading while building your endurance and sound. Trumpet players interested in long tone exercises should also check out 

 (Treble Clef)      (Bass Clef)

Big Band Charts

"Better Git Hit In Your Soul"

"Shades Of Blue"  

"Lester Leaps In"

"The Hydra's F Blues - The Blues of Many Heads..." (head chart)

These charts are available here for no charge for a limited time.